Broadberry, Stephen N.; Gupta, Bishnupriya - 2006
north-western parts. In the advanced parts of India and China, grain wages were comparable to those in north-western Europe … 1500 and 1800 look similar to the stagnating southern, central, and eastern parts of Europe rather than the developing … silver wages of north-western Europe were not simply a monetary phenomenon, but reflected high productivity in the tradable …